Abstract: Surface texturing as an attractive means or method to significantly improve the tribological performances of sliding pairs has aroused great attention by worldwide scientists during recent years. In the present review, the applications fields and research background of surface texturing were introduced firstly. The recent progress and current status of surface texturing on improving macrofriction, microfriction and biofriction of surfaces were summarized in detail. The benefit of surface texturing to improve macro/micro-tribological behaviors was analyzed. Finally, the problems existed on surface texturing were pointed out and it is also suggested that more efforts should be made to what in the future.